| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Paul Ableman |
Novelist |
13-Jun-1927 |
25-Oct-2006 |
I Hear Voices |
| Roman Abramovich |
Business |
24-Oct-1966 |
|
Russian oligarch |
| Alexei A. Abrikosov |
Physicist |
25-Jun-1928 |
|
Particle physicist, explored superconductivity |
| Bella Abzug |
Politician |
24-Jul-1920 |
31-Mar-1998 |
Feminist and former Congresswoman |
| Stew Albert |
Activist |
4-Dec-1939 |
30-Jan-2006 |
Founding Yippie |
| Zhores I. Alferov |
Scientist |
15-Mar-1930 |
|
Developed solar cells for the Sputnik program |
| Saul Alinsky |
Activist |
30-Jan-1909 |
12-Jun-1972 |
Rules for Radicals |
| Herb Alpert |
Musician |
31-Mar-1935 |
|
Tijuana Brass, Co-Founder, A&M Records |
| Leon Ames |
Actor |
20-Jan-1902 |
12-Oct-1993 |
Character actor, a SAG founder |
| Diane Arbus |
Photographer |
14-Mar-1923 |
26-Jul-1971 |
Influential photographer |
| Alan Arkin |
Actor |
26-Mar-1934 |
|
Catch 22 |
| Isaac Asimov |
Author |
2-Jan-1920 |
6-Apr-1992 |
Foundation |
| Harvey Atkin |
Actor |
18-Dec-1942 |
|
Sgt. Coleman on Cagney and Lacey |
| Red Auerbach |
Basketball |
20-Sep-1917 |
28-Oct-2006 |
Boston Celtics coach |
| Isaac Babel |
Author |
1-Jul-1894 |
27-Jan-1940 |
Soviet master of short stories |
| Saul Bellow |
Novelist |
10-Jun-1915 |
5-Apr-2005 |
The Adventures of Augie March |
| Kenneth Bialkin |
Attorney |
9-Sep-1929 |
|
Mergers & Acquisitions lawyer |
| Boris Blacher |
Composer |
19-Jan-1903 |
30-Jan-1975 |
Die Nachtschwalbe |
| David Blaine |
Magician |
4-Apr-1973 |
|
World's least engrossing daredevil |
| Yasmine Bleeth |
Actor |
14-Jun-1968 |
|
Baywatch |
| Sorrell Booke |
Actor |
4-Jan-1930 |
11-Feb-1994 |
Boss Hogg on Dukes of Hazzard |
| Daniel Boorstin |
Historian |
1-Oct-1914 |
28-Feb-2004 |
The Creators |
| Elayne Boosler |
Comic |
18-Aug-1952 |
|
Has had 7 cable comedy specials |
| Sydney Brenner |
Scientist |
13-Jan-1927 |
|
Genetic regulation of organ development |
| Sergey Brin |
Business |
21-Aug-1973 |
|
Co-Founder of Google |
| Joseph Brodsky |
Poet |
24-May-1940 |
28-Jan-1996 |
"Social parasite" turned Poet Laureate |
| Aaron Brown |
Journalist |
10-Nov-1948 |
|
Hosted CNN Newsnight |
| Agnes Bruckner |
Actor |
16-Aug-1985 |
|
Soap star, movie star |
| Gordon Bunshaft |
Architect |
9-May-1909 |
6-Aug-1990 |
Skyscraper architect |
| Sid Caesar |
Comic |
8-Sep-1922 |
|
Your Show of Shows |
| Melvin Calvin |
Chemist |
8-Apr-1911 |
8-Jan-1997 |
Deciphered photosynthesis |
| Amira Casar |
Actor |
1-Jul-1971 |
|
Anatomy of Hell |
| Oleg Cassini |
Fashion Designer |
11-Apr-1913 |
17-Mar-2006 |
Fashion designer |
| Phoebe Cates |
Actor |
16-Jul-1963 |
|
Fast Times at Ridgemont High |
| Ernst B. Chain |
Scientist |
19-Jun-1906 |
12-Aug-1979 |
Isolated penicillin |
| Jule Charney |
Scientist |
1-Jan-1917 |
16-Jun-1981 |
Quasi-gesotrophic theory |
| Michael Chertoff |
Government |
28-Nov-1953 |
|
US Homeland Security Czar |
| Noam Chomsky |
Linguist |
7-Dec-1928 |
|
Linguist, dissident intellectual |
| Anatoly Chubais |
Government |
16-Jun-1955 |
|
Oligarch, heads Russian electric utility |
| Marcia Clark |
Attorney |
31-Aug-1953 |
|
Former O.J. prosecutor |
| David Copperfield |
Magician |
16-Sep-1956 |
|
Disappeared the Statue of Liberty |
| Leon Czolgosz |
Assassin |
1873 |
29-Oct-1901 |
President McKinley's assassin |
| Meir Dagan |
Spy |
30-Jan-1945 |
|
Chief of the Israeli Mossad, 2002-11 |
| Stuart Damon |
Actor |
5-Feb-1937 |
|
Alan Quartermaine on General Hospital |
| Moshe Dayan |
Politician |
20-May-1915 |
16-Oct-1981 |
Israeli military leader |
| Sandra Dee |
Actor |
23-Apr-1942 |
20-Feb-2005 |
Gidget |
| Ivan Desny |
Actor |
28-Dec-1922 |
13-Apr-2002 |
Pan-European character actor |
| T. G. Dobzhansky |
Scientist |
25-Jan-1900 |
18-Dec-1975 |
Genetics and the Origin of Species |
| E. L. Doctorow |
Author |
6-Jan-1931 |
|
The Book of Daniel |
| Illeana Douglas |
Actor |
25-Jul-1965 |
|
Grace of My Heart |
| Kirk Douglas |
Actor |
9-Dec-1916 |
|
Spartacus |
| Fran Drescher |
Actor |
30-Sep-1957 |
|
The Nanny |
| Isabelle Eberhardt |
Author |
17-Feb-1877 |
21-Oct-1904 |
Transvestite Muslim author |
| Eric S. Edelman |
Diplomat |
1951 |
|
Under Secretary of Defense for Policy |
| Samuel Eilenberg |
Mathematician |
30-Sep-1913 |
30-Jan-1998 |
Category theory |
| Sergei Eisenstein |
Film Director |
23-Jan-1898 |
11-Feb-1948 |
Alexander Nevsky |
| Gertrude B. Elion |
Scientist |
23-Jan-1918 |
21-Feb-1999 |
Developed medicines for leukemia, herpes, AIDS |
| Bill Evans |
Jazz Musician |
16-Aug-1929 |
15-Sep-1980 |
Jazz pianist |
| Peter Falk |
Actor |
16-Sep-1927 |
23-Jun-2011 |
Detective Columbo |
| Russ Feingold |
Politician |
2-Mar-1953 |
|
US Senator from Wisconsin, 1993-2011 |
| Dianne Feinstein |
Politician |
22-Jun-1933 |
|
US Senator from California |
| Marty Feldman |
Comic |
8-Jul-1933 |
2-Dec-1982 |
Eye-gor in Young Frankenstein |
| Richard Feynman |
Physicist |
11-May-1918 |
15-Feb-1988 |
Surely he's joking |
| Carrie Fisher |
Actor |
21-Oct-1956 |
|
Princess Leia in Star Wars |
| Eddie Fisher |
Singer |
10-Aug-1928 |
22-Sep-2010 |
Crooner, top RCA/Victor vocalist |
| Max M. Fisher |
Business |
15-Jul-1908 |
3-Mar-2005 |
Gas station tycoon |
| Robert W. Fogel |
Economist |
1-Jul-1926 |
|
Cliometrics |
| Harrison Ford |
Actor |
13-Jul-1942 |
|
Han Solo in Star Wars |
| Melyssa Ford |
TV Personality |
7-Nov-1976 |
|
BET personality |
| Nikolai Fraiture |
Bassist |
13-Nov-1978 |
|
Bassist for The Strokes |
| Barney Frank |
Politician |
31-Mar-1940 |
|
Congressman, Massachusetts 4th |
| Ilya M. Frank |
Physicist |
23-Oct-1908 |
22-Jun-1990 |
Cherenkov radiation |
| Betty Friedan |
Activist |
4-Feb-1921 |
4-Feb-2006 |
Rights for women spokesperson |
| Jerome I. Friedman |
Physicist |
28-Mar-1930 |
|
Verified existence of quarks |
| Kinky Friedman |
Musician |
31-Oct-1944 |
|
Texas Jewboy |
| William Friedman |
Scientist |
24-Sep-1891 |
12-Nov-1969 |
Cryptography pioneer |
| Justine Frischmann |
Guitarist |
16-Sep-1969 |
|
Guitarist, Elastica |
| Serge Gainsbourg |
Singer/Songwriter |
2-Apr-1928 |
2-Mar-1991 |
Je t'aime ... moi non plus |
| George Gamow |
Physicist |
4-Mar-1904 |
19-Aug-1968 |
Proponent of Big Bang Theory |
| Victor Garber |
Actor |
16-Mar-1949 |
|
Jack Bristow on Alias |
| George Gaynes |
Actor |
16-May-1917 |
|
Henry Warnimont on Punky Brewster |
| David Geffen |
Business |
21-Feb-1943 |
|
Music and movie industry mogul |
| Andre Geim |
Physicist |
Oct-1958 |
|
Super-thin carbon physics |
| Gina Gershon |
Actor |
10-Jun-1962 |
|
Showgirls |
| George Gershwin |
Songwriter |
26-Sep-1898 |
11-Jul-1937 |
Rhapsody In Blue |
| Ira Gershwin |
Songwriter |
6-Dec-1896 |
17-Aug-1983 |
They Can't Take That Away from Me |
| Allen Ginsberg |
Poet |
3-Jun-1926 |
5-Apr-1997 |
Howl! |
| Vitaly L. Ginzburg |
Physicist |
4-Oct-1916 |
8-Nov-2009 |
Type-II superconductors |
| Donald A. Glaser |
Physicist |
21-Sep-1926 |
|
Inventor of the bubble chamber |
| Sheldon Glashow |
Physicist |
5-Dec-1932 |
|
Electroweak Theory |
| Erving Goffman |
Sociologist |
11-Jun-1922 |
19-Nov-1982 |
The Presentation of Self |
| Arthur J. Goldberg |
Judge |
8-Aug-1908 |
19-Jan-1990 |
Supreme Court Justice, 1962-65 |
| Raisa Gorbachev |
First Lady |
5-Jan-1932 |
20-Sep-1999 |
First Lady of the Soviet Union |
| Susan Greenfield |
Scientist |
1-Oct-1950 |
|
Brain Story |
| Paul Greengard |
Scientist |
11-Dec-1925 |
|
Signal transduction in the nervous system |
| Jesse L. Greenstein |
Astronomer |
15-Oct-1909 |
21-Oct-2002 |
Co-Discoverer of quasars |
| Andre Gregory |
Theater Director |
11-May-1934 |
|
My Dinner with Andre |
| Alexander Grothendieck |
Mathematician |
28-May-1928 |
|
Grothendieck topologies |
| Jane Harman |
Politician |
28-Jun-1945 |
|
Congresswoman from California, 1993-2011 |
| Jonathan Harris |
Actor |
6-Nov-1914 |
3-Nov-2002 |
Dr. Zachary Smith on Lost in Space |
| Rita E. Hauser |
Activist |
12-Jul-1934 |
|
Former Partner, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan |
| Alan J. Heeger |
Physicist |
22-Jan-1936 |
|
Metallic polymers |
| Barbara Hershey |
Actor |
5-Feb-1948 |
|
Boxcar Bertha and Mary Magdalene |
| Don Hewitt |
Film/TV Producer |
14-Dec-1922 |
19-Aug-2009 |
60 Minutes creator |
| Steven Hill |
Actor |
24-Feb-1922 |
|
Adam Schiff on Law & Order |
| Abbie Hoffman |
Activist |
30-Nov-1936 |
12-Apr-1989 |
Steal This Book |
| Nick Holonyak |
Physicist |
3-Nov-1928 |
|
Light-emitting diodes |
| David Horowitz |
Activist |
10-Jan-1939 |
|
Conservative activist |
| H. Robert Horvitz |
Scientist |
8-May-1947 |
|
Genetic regulation of organ development |
| Conrad Hubert |
Business |
15-Apr-1856 |
12-Mar-1928 |
Flashlights |
| Michael Ignatieff |
Author |
12-May-1947 |
|
Blood and Belonging |
| Ze'ev Jabotinsky |
Military |
18-Oct-1880 |
4-Aug-1940 |
Founder of the Jewish Legion |
| Billy Joel |
Pianist |
9-May-1949 |
|
Didn't start the fire |
| Erica Jong |
Author |
26-Mar-1942 |
|
Fear of Flying |
| Tony Judt |
Historian |
2-Jan-1948 |
6-Aug-2010 |
Postwar |
| Mauricio Kagel |
Composer |
24-Dec-1931 |
18-Sep-2008 |
Absurdist composer |
| Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov |
Inventor |
10-Nov-1919 |
|
Inventor of Kalashnikov rifle |
| Carol Kane |
Actor |
18-Jun-1952 |
|
Simka on Taxi |
| Pyotr Kapitsa |
Physicist |
8-Jul-1894 |
8-Apr-1984 |
Discovered superfluidity |
| Bernard Katz |
Scientist |
26-Mar-1911 |
20-Apr-2003 |
Neurotransmitters and the pineal gland |
| Alfred Kazin |
Critic |
5-Jun-1915 |
5-Jun-1998 |
On Native Grounds |
| Nicholas Kemmer |
Physicist |
7-Dec-1911 |
21-Oct-1998 |
Nuclear weapons and reactors |
| Bernard Kerik |
Government |
4-Sep-1955 |
|
NYC Police Commissioner, 2000-01 |
| Alan King |
Comic |
26-Dec-1927 |
9-May-2004 |
Jewish comic and Friars Club fixture |
| Larry King |
Talk Show Host |
19-Nov-1933 |
|
Larry King Live |
| Ben Kingsley |
Actor |
31-Dec-1943 |
|
Gandhi |
| Leon Kirchner |
Composer |
24-Jan-1919 |
17-Sep-2009 |
Quartet No. 3 |
| Paul Klebnikov |
Journalist |
3-Jun-1963 |
9-Jul-2004 |
Forbes journalist, killed in Moscow |
| Walter Koenig |
Actor |
14-Sep-1936 |
|
Chekov on Star Trek |
| Jon Krakauer |
Author |
12-Apr-1954 |
|
Into Thin Air |
| Lenny Kravitz |
Musician |
26-May-1964 |
|
Wants to fly away yeah |
| Lev Landau |
Physicist |
22-Jan-1908 |
1-Apr-1968 |
Superfluidity of helium |
| Ann Landers |
Columnist |
4-Jul-1918 |
22-Jun-2002 |
Syndicated advice columnist |
| Joe Lando |
Actor |
9-Dec-1961 |
|
Byron Sully on Dr. Quinn |
| Ralph Lauren |
Fashion Designer |
14-Oct-1939 |
|
Founder, Polo Ralph Lauren |
| Piper Laurie |
Actor |
22-Jan-1932 |
|
Catherine Packard in Twin Peaks |
| Frank Lautenberg |
Politician |
23-Jan-1924 |
|
US Senator from New Jersey |
| Leon M. Lederman |
Physicist |
15-Jul-1922 |
|
Researcher of neutrinos |
| Jennifer Jason Leigh |
Actor |
5-Feb-1962 |
|
Fast Times at Ridgemont High |
| Mike Leigh |
Film Director |
20-Feb-1943 |
|
Naked, Topsy-Turvy |
| Alfred Lerner |
Business |
8-May-1933 |
23-Oct-2002 |
CEO of MBNA, 1982-2002 |
| Oscar Levant |
Pianist |
27-Dec-1906 |
14-Aug-1972 |
Panelist, Information Please |
| Philip Levine |
Poet |
10-Jan-1928 |
|
What Work Is |
| Monica Lewinsky |
Government |
23-Jul-1973 |
|
Engaged in Presidential cigar play |
| Robert Lipshutz |
Government |
27-Dec-1921 |
6-Nov-2010 |
White House Counsel, 1977-79 |
| Karina Lombard |
Actor |
21-Jan-1964 |
|
The L Word |
| André Lwoff |
Scientist |
8-May-1902 |
30-Sep-1994 |
Operon theory of genetic control |
| Eugene Lyons |
Author |
1-Jul-1898 |
1985 |
Anti-Communist Editor of American Mercury |
| Rachel Maddow |
TV Personality |
1-Apr-1973 |
|
The Rachel Maddow Show |
| Bernie Marcus |
Business |
12-May-1929 |
|
Co-Founder of Home Depot |
| Walter Matthau |
Actor |
1-Oct-1920 |
1-Jul-2000 |
Messy half of the Odd Couple |
| Louis B. Mayer |
Film/TV Producer |
4-Jul-1885 |
29-Oct-1957 |
The final M in MGM |
| Country Joe McDonald |
Musician |
1-Jan-1942 |
|
Country Joe and the Fish |
| Alice McGrath |
Activist |
5-Apr-1917 |
27-Nov-2009 |
Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee |
| Ilya Mechnikov |
Scientist |
16-May-1845 |
16-Jul-1916 |
Researched the immune system |
| Mike Medavoy |
Business |
21-Jan-1941 |
|
TriStar, Orion, Phoenix Pictures chairman |
| Debra Messing |
Actor |
15-Aug-1968 |
|
Grace on Will & Grace |
| Albert A. Michelson |
Physicist |
19-Dec-1852 |
9-May-1931 |
Measured the speed of light |
| Judith Miller |
Journalist |
2-Jan-1948 |
|
Credulous NY Times WMD maven |
| Mitch Miller |
Musician |
4-Jul-1911 |
31-Jul-2010 |
Sing Along with Mitch |
| Hyman Minsky |
Economist |
23-Sep-1919 |
25-Oct-1996 |
Inherently unstable markets |
| Brigitte Mira |
Actor |
20-Apr-1910 |
8-Mar-2005 |
Fassbinder actress |
| Eugene Mirman |
Actor |
24-Jul-1974 |
|
Eugene on Flight of the Conchords |
| Helen Mirren |
Actor |
26-Jul-1945 |
|
Prime Suspect |
| Bess Myerson |
Model |
16-Jul-1924 |
|
First Jewish Miss America |
| Daniel Nathans |
Scientist |
30-Oct-1928 |
16-Nov-1999 |
Restriction enzymes (DNA cleavage) |
| Victor Navasky |
Publisher |
5-Jul-1932 |
|
Publisher of The Nation |
| S. I. Newhouse, Sr. |
Publisher |
24-May-1895 |
29-Aug-1979 |
Founder of Advance Publications |
| Konstantin Novoselov |
Physicist |
Aug-1974 |
|
Super-thin carbon physics |
| Clifford Odets |
Playwright |
18-Jul-1906 |
14-Aug-1963 |
Sweet Smell of Success |
| Herbert S. Okun |
Diplomat |
27-Nov-1930 |
8-Nov-2011 |
US Ambassador to the UN, 1985-89 |
| Marvin Olasky |
Pundit |
12-Jun-1950 |
|
The Tragedy of American Compassion |
| Suze Orman |
Author |
5-Jun-1951 |
|
The Road to Wealth |
| Benjamin Orr |
Bassist |
8-Sep-1947 |
3-Oct-2000 |
Bassist for The Cars |
| Douglas D. Osheroff |
Physicist |
1-Aug-1945 |
|
Superfluidity of helium-3 |
| Wilhelm Ostwald |
Chemist |
2-Sep-1853 |
4-Apr-1932 |
Ostwald's Law of Dilution and Conductivity |
| Cynthia Ozick |
Author |
17-Apr-1928 |
|
The Puttermesser Papers |
| Chuck Palahniuk |
Author |
21-Feb-1962 |
|
Fight Club |
| Charlemagne Palestine |
Pianist |
14-Aug-1945 |
|
Strumming Music |
| Olof Palme |
Head of State |
30-Jan-1927 |
28-Feb-1986 |
Swedish Prime Minister, assassinated |
| Anna Pavlova |
Dancer |
12-Feb-1881 |
22-Jan-1931 |
Early 20th century Russian ballerina |
| Vladimir Peniakoff |
Military |
30-Mar-1897 |
May-1951 |
Head of Popski's Private Army |
| Chris Penn |
Actor |
10-Oct-1965 |
24-Jan-2006 |
Nice Guy Eddie in Reservoir Dogs |
| Leo Penn |
Film Director |
27-Aug-1921 |
5-Sep-1998 |
The Dark Secret of Harvest Home |
| Michael Penn |
Musician |
1-Aug-1958 |
|
Sean Penn's brother |
| Sean Penn |
Actor |
17-Aug-1960 |
|
Fast Times at Ridgemont High |
| Grigori Perelman |
Mathematician |
13-Jun-1966 |
|
Proved the Poincaré conjecture |
| S. J. Perelman |
Author |
1-Feb-1904 |
17-Oct-1979 |
New Yorker humorist |
| Martin L. Perl |
Physicist |
24-Jun-1927 |
|
Discovered the tau lepton |
| Hy Peskin |
Photographer |
5-Nov-1915 |
2-Jun-2005 |
Sports photojournalist |
| Philippe I |
Royalty |
23-May-1052 |
29-Jul-1108 |
King of France 1060-1108 |
| Bronson Pinchot |
Actor |
20-May-1959 |
|
Balki on Perfect Strangers |
| Gregory Pincus |
Scientist |
9-Apr-1903 |
22-Aug-1967 |
Inventor of oral contraceptives |
| Frances Fox Piven |
Activist |
10-Oct-1932 |
|
Regulating The Poor |
| Roman Polanski |
Film Director |
18-Aug-1933 |
|
Chinatown |
| Alexander M. Poniatoff |
Business |
1892 |
1980 |
Founder of Ampex |
| Sylvia Porter |
Columnist |
18-Jun-1913 |
5-Jun-1991 |
Financial columnist |
| Laura Prepon |
Actor |
7-Mar-1980 |
|
Donna on That '70s Show |
| Ilya Prigogine |
Chemist |
25-Jan-1917 |
28-May-2003 |
Theory of dissipative structures |
| Aleksandr M. Prokhorov |
Physicist |
11-Jul-1916 |
8-Jan-2002 |
Invention of the maser and laser |
| Stanley B. Prusiner |
Scientist |
28-May-1942 |
|
Prions |
| Yitzhak Rabin |
Head of State |
1-Mar-1922 |
4-Nov-1995 |
Twice Prime Minister of Israel |
| Sergei Rachmaninov |
Composer |
20-Mar-1873 |
28-Mar-1943 |
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini |
| Ayn Rand |
Author |
2-Feb-1905 |
6-Mar-1982 |
Atlas Shrugged |
| John Randolph |
Actor |
1-Jun-1915 |
24-Feb-2004 |
Prizzi's Honor |
| Frederick Reines |
Physicist |
16-Mar-1918 |
26-Aug-1998 |
Co-Discover of the neutrino |
| Judith Reisman |
Author |
11-Apr-1935 |
|
Hates Kinsey |
| Nicholas V. Riasanovsky |
Historian |
21-Dec-1923 |
14-May-2011 |
A History of Russia |
| Frank Rich |
Columnist |
2-Jun-1949 |
|
New York magazine |
| Meshulam Riklis |
Business |
2-Dec-1923 |
|
Corporate raider |
| Joan Rivers |
Comic |
8-Jun-1933 |
|
Can we talk? |
| Rene Rivkin |
Business |
6-Jun-1944 |
1-May-2005 |
Disgraced Australian stockbroker |
| Irv Robbins |
Business |
6-Dec-1917 |
5-May-2008 |
Co-Founder of Baskin-Robbins |
| Ernestine Rose |
Activist |
13-Jan-1810 |
4-Aug-1892 |
Suffragette and abolitionist |
| Irwin Rose |
Scientist |
16-Jul-1926 |
|
Ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation |
| Ethel Rosenberg |
Relative |
28-Sep-1915 |
19-Jun-1953 |
Executed for being married to Julius Rosenberg |
| Julius Rosenberg |
Spy |
12-May-1918 |
19-Jun-1953 |
Leaked atomic bomb secrets to USSR |
| Dennis B. Ross |
Diplomat |
c. 1949 |
|
US Middle East Envoy, 1992-2000 |
| Eugene Victor Rostow |
Educator |
25-Aug-1913 |
25-Nov-2002 |
Dean of Yale Law School, 1955-65 |
| Walt Rostow |
Government |
7-Oct-1916 |
13-Feb-2003 |
National Security Advisor, 1966-69 |
| Mstislav Rostropovich |
Cellist |
27-Mar-1927 |
27-Apr-2007 |
Cellist and conductor |
| Murray Rothbard |
Economist |
2-Mar-1926 |
7-Jan-1995 |
Anarcho-capitalist |
| Albert Sabin |
Biologist |
26-Aug-1906 |
3-Mar-1993 |
Developed oral polio vaccine |
| Oliver Sacks |
Doctor |
9-Jul-1933 |
|
Awakenings |
| Jonas Salk |
Scientist |
28-Oct-1914 |
23-Jun-1995 |
Discoverer of the first polio vaccine |
| David Sarnoff |
Business |
27-Feb-1891 |
12-Dec-1971 |
CEO of RCA, founder of NBC |
| Andrea Saul |
Government |
1981 |
|
Romney press secretary |
| Herschel Savage |
Pornstar |
25-Nov-1952 |
|
Go-to performer for Seymore Butts |
| Michael Savage |
Radio Personality |
31-Mar-1942 |
|
Savage Nation |
| Robert Scheer |
Columnist |
4-Apr-1936 |
|
Former L.A. Times columnist |
| Nicole Scherzinger |
Dancer |
29-Jun-1978 |
|
The Pussycat Dolls |
| Laura Schlessinger |
Radio Personality |
16-Jan-1947 |
|
The Dr. Laura Show |
| Rose Schneiderman |
Labor Leader |
16-Apr-1882 |
11-Aug-1972 |
Union leader of the 1920s-'50s |
| Daniel Schorr |
Journalist |
31-Aug-1916 |
23-Jul-2010 |
Veteran journalist, Nixon enemy |
| Brian Schweitzer |
Politician |
4-Sep-1955 |
|
Governor of Montana |
| Raymond Scott |
Musician |
10-Sep-1908 |
8-Feb-1994 |
Powerhouse, invented the sequencer |
| Jay Sekulow |
Activist |
10-Jun-1956 |
|
American Center for Law and Justice |
| Nikolay Semyonov |
Chemist |
15-Apr-1896 |
25-Sep-1986 |
Combustion, explosions, and chemical kinetics |
| Albert Shanker |
Labor Leader |
14-Sep-1928 |
22-Feb-1997 |
American Federation of Teachers |
| Ariel Sharon |
Head of State |
26-Feb-1928 |
|
Prime Minister of Israel, 2001-06 |
| Iosif S. Shklovskii |
Astronomer |
1-Jul-1916 |
3-Mar-1985 |
Synchrotron radiation of the Crab Nebula |
| David Shoenberg |
Physicist |
4-Jan-1911 |
10-Mar-2004 |
Physicist at Cambridge |
| Isaac Shoenberg |
Engineer |
1-Mar-1880 |
25-Jan-1963 |
405-line format television |
| Alexander Shulgin |
Chemist |
17-Jun-1925 |
|
Rediscovered MDMA |
| Peter Shumlin |
Politician |
24-Mar-1956 |
|
Governor of Vermont |
| Sylvia Sidney |
Actor |
8-Aug-1910 |
1-Jul-1999 |
Mama Carlson on WKRP |
| Igor Sikorsky |
Business |
25-May-1889 |
26-Oct-1972 |
Helicopter magnate |
| Beverly Sills |
Singer |
25-May-1929 |
2-Jul-2007 |
Soprano at the New York City Opera |
| Sarah Silverman |
Comic |
1-Dec-1970 |
|
The Sarah Silverman Program |
| Dimitri K. Simes |
Government |
? |
|
Nixon Center |
| Leonard Slatkin |
Conductor |
1-Sep-1944 |
|
Music Director, Detroit Symphony |
| Louis Slotin |
Physicist |
1-Dec-1910 |
30-May-1946 |
Died tickling the dragon's tail |
| Ksenia Solo |
Actor |
8-Oct-1987 |
|
Kenzi on Lost Girl |
| Ron Sommer |
Business |
29-Jul-1949 |
|
Chairman of Deutsche Telekom, 1995-2002 |
| Richard Sorge |
Spy |
4-Oct-1895 |
7-Nov-1944 |
Warned Stalin of Operation Barbarossa |
| Frank Soskice |
Politician |
23-Jul-1902 |
1-Jan-1979 |
UK Home Secretary, 1964-65 |
| Arlen Specter |
Politician |
12-Feb-1930 |
|
US Senator from Pennsylvania, 1981-2011 |
| Phil Spector |
Music Producer |
26-Dec-1940 |
|
Creator of the Wall of Sound |
| Jerry Stahl |
Author |
28-Sep-1953 |
|
Permanent Midnight |
| Sergey Stanishev |
Head of State |
5-May-1966 |
|
Prime Minister of Bulgaria |
| Peter Steele |
Musician |
4-Jan-1962 |
14-Apr-2010 |
Frontman for Type O Negative |
| I. F. Stone |
Journalist |
24-Dec-1907 |
17-Jul-1989 |
I. F. Stone's Weekly |
| Igor Stravinsky |
Composer |
17-Jun-1882 |
6-Apr-1971 |
The Rite of Spring |
| Otto Struve |
Astronomer |
12-Aug-1897 |
6-Apr-1963 |
Hydrogen in the interstellar medium |
| Bo Svenson |
Actor |
13-Feb-1944 |
|
North Dallas Forty |
| Igor Y. Tamm |
Physicist |
8-Jul-1895 |
12-Apr-1971 |
Cherenkov radiation |
| Burton M. Tansky |
Business |
c. 1938 |
|
CEO of Neiman Marcus |
| Henry Taube |
Chemist |
30-Nov-1915 |
16-Nov-2005 |
Mechanisms of electron transfer |
| Teller |
Magician |
14-Feb-1948 |
|
The nonspeaking half of Penn and Teller |
| Nikolai Timofeev-Ressovsky |
Biologist |
20-Sep-1900 |
28-Mar-1981 |
Russian geneticist |
| Stephen Tobolowsky |
Actor |
30-May-1951 |
|
Ned Ryerson in Groundhog Day |
| Mel Tormé |
Singer |
13-Sep-1925 |
5-Jun-1999 |
The Velvet Fog |
| Harry Towb |
Actor |
27-Jul-1925 |
24-Jul-2009 |
Northern Irish stage and film actor |
| Alex Trebek |
Game Show Host |
22-Jul-1940 |
|
Jeopardy |
| Laurence Tribe |
Attorney |
10-Oct-1941 |
|
Harvard Law Professor |
| Steven Tyler |
Singer |
26-Mar-1948 |
|
Frontman for Aerosmith |
| Fyodor Tyutchev |
Poet |
23-Nov-1803 |
15-Jul-1873 |
Russian Golden Age poet |
| Vladimir Ussachevsky |
Composer |
3-Nov-1911 |
2-Jan-1990 |
Tape music composer |
| John R. Vane |
Scientist |
29-Mar-1927 |
19-Nov-2004 |
Prostaglandins |
| Mike Vaska |
Activist |
1960 |
|
Discovery Institute |
| John von Neumann |
Mathematician |
28-Dec-1903 |
8-Feb-1957 |
Computing pioneer, inventor of Game Theory |
| Hans von Spakovsky |
Government |
11-Mar-1959 |
|
FEC Commissioner |
| Andrei Vyshinsky |
Government |
10-Dec-1883 |
22-Nov-1954 |
Soviet Prosecutor General during the Great Purge |
| Otto Wallach |
Chemist |
27-Mar-1847 |
26-Feb-1931 |
Terpenes and essential oils |
| Lew Wasserman |
Business |
22-Mar-1913 |
3-Jun-2002 |
Chairman and CEO of MCA, 1946-95 |
| Allen Weinstein |
Historian |
1-Sep-1937 |
|
US National Archivist |
| Melissa F. Wells |
Diplomat |
18-Nov-1932 |
|
US Ambassador to Estonia, 1998-2001 |
| Paul Wellstone |
Politician |
21-Jul-1944 |
25-Oct-2002 |
US Senator from Minnesota, 1991-2002 |
| Nathanael West |
Author |
17-Oct-1903 |
22-Dec-1940 |
The Day of the Locust |
| Wilhelm Wien |
Physicist |
13-Jan-1864 |
30-Aug-1928 |
Blackbody radiation |
| Norbert Wiener |
Mathematician |
26-Nov-1894 |
18-Mar-1964 |
Cybernetics |
| Gene Wilder |
Actor |
11-Jun-1933 |
|
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory |
| Natalie Wood |
Actor |
20-Jul-1938 |
29-Nov-1981 |
Rebel Without A Cause |
| Rosalyn Sussman Yalow |
Physicist |
19-Jul-1921 |
30-May-2011 |
Developed radioimmunoassay technique |
| Anton Yelchin |
Actor |
11-Mar-1989 |
|
Delivering Milo |
| Georgi Zhukov |
Military |
1-Dec-1896 |
18-Jun-1974 |
Soviet commander during WWII |
| Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. |
Actor |
30-Nov-1918 |
|
The F.B.I. |
| Howard Zinn |
Historian |
24-Aug-1922 |
27-Jan-2010 |
A People's History of the United States |
| Vladimir Zworykin |
Inventor |
30-Jul-1889 |
29-Jul-1982 |
Patented color televison |
